| Literature DB >> 2960547 |
J R Lamb1, E D Zanders, W Sewell, M J Crumpton, M Feldmann, M J Owen.
Abstract
We have investigated the role of the CD2 protein in the negative regulation of immune function and report that similar to antigen and anti-CD3, the monoclonal anti-CD2 antibodies (T112 and T113) can induce specific unresponsiveness. Antigen and anti-CD2 tolerogenic signals both down-regulated the phenotypic expression of CD3-Ti. In contrast CD2 surface expression was up-regulated after exposure to peptide and down-regulated after anti-T112 and T113 preincubation. However, in both instances interleukin 2 receptor surface levels were increased. These phenotypic changes could only be partly explained by variations in the levels of the transcripts encoding the CD3-Ti and CD2 molecules.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 2960547 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830171118
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Immunol ISSN: 0014-2980 Impact factor: 5.532